While we normally think of serious collisions resulting in death and destruction, the collision of galaxies results in something altogether different - creation! The NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the colliding Antennae galaxies is testament to this - throughout the collision of these two spiral galaxies, billions of stars will be formed. The two galaxies are already dotted with brilliant blue star-forming regions and the pink glow of hot hydrogen gas.
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